If someone is going to www.i-am-a-terrorist.com/forum/post.php. CHANCES ARE you know EXACTLY what he was looking at when he went to the site. Combine that with an "ah, I see he visited on Thursday at 7PM" and you've got a very good idea of what Mr. Terrorist posted. The point is that even though you can read the outside of a letter and know where it's going and where it came from, you still require a warrant to be able to examine it any further. Information posted to the internet does not have the same protection.
But then again, anyone posting on a public forum has to be aware of that fact. Anyone posting incriminating material on a public forum (ie: the internet) is an idiot...
Though it seems like a lot of money, compare to ANY other governmental program (consider Welfare at 14% of the US GDP means that almost 2 trillion dollars are spent YEARLY on welfare alone! Now also keep in mind this includes corporate welfare...)
My point being, is that given the scientific, bureaucratic, safety, social, political and engineering requirements that NASA has to adhere to, they are given a VERY strict budget to do it in. Every mission they plan for, they MUST do it on the cheap, and planning for multiple missions? Nah, that's a waste of time AND money that they don't have, because there's still only a slim chance the primary mission will even happen, let alone succeed.
I miss the days when radio was orchestrated by the DJ. Instead of there being "playlists" and the DJ just there for random contests and advertisements, the DJ USED to be (well...sometimes was...) a knowledgeable source of the music he was playing, because not only would he PLAY what he LIKED, he generally OWNED it all anyway.
Now it's all automated and corporately driven, unless you find a good college station: (like www.wicb.org -- listen online and rated very well nationally)
8 years ago when I called up my local rock station and asked for Queens of the Stone Age, the DJ knew who I was talking about (at that point a year old band with a brand new album.) Now, try to call your local rock radio station and see if they have any Copeland, or Tea Party (now just Jeff Martin, but worth a look!!!) or V.A.S.T....bands that have been putting out multiple albums for YEARS but since they aren't on many major playlists, you'll NEVER hear them from ClearChannel or KROCK...
So...since you answered the way you did I am going to ask you:
What exactly is this "Tre" then? I see it's an enzyme, but I guess I'm still a bit confused. Cre acted as a catalyst to procure a specific reaction for a specific DNA sequence? Is that an attribute of the chemical composition of the enzyme, or, well...I guess I really don't understand where that came from. Is it a specific enzyme, or is "Cre" the name attributed to ANY enzyme that acts in this way?
OK, so with that, what is Tre? The same type of enzyme with a different chemical composition? The reason I'm asking this is because, if I'm interpreting this correctly, this could have very far reaching ramifications! I can imagine this (enzyme? process?) being used to cure just about ANY virus infection, let alone the myriad of other GENETIC diseases that we humans are currently affected by...again, if I understand correctly. Tre might cure AIDS, where Bre cures Herpes, and Wre cures the common cold... OK so I know I'm probably oversimplifying way too much, but considering that viruses all work in (basically) the same way, it's just a matter of recognizing the different DNA sequences.
The only problem I really see with this: If Person A was born with a very abnormal genetic problem, and undergoes therapy and this treatment to effectively "cure" themselves, would it replace the genetics body-wide? I guess I'm thinking about way in the future, as it's going to have to be a huge step to get to that point, but my thought was that if the reproductive organs of Person A weren't changed genetically, essentially that genetic "problem" will continue for every generation to come.
OK, I said my piece. Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it. I tried to read the article and was just getting more confused!
...and, will they allow anyone to edit these articles? That's the spirit of a Wiki, right? It's all fine to hire a bunch of smarter monkeys to write for you, but when your "editor" is the rest of us (relatively by comparison) retarded monkeys, I don't see how paying for the initial content makes a difference.
It's a seed plant, so it reproduces sexually. Unless the species itself has inbred to the point of no variation in their DNA (like what the leopard is approaching), one disease or parasite or [insert bane here] would have wiped them out years ago. Even, let's go far as to say their DNA was SO PERFECT that it had already taken into account any potential threat, past, present AND future...then every single plant would be the same...why would it fight any individual from the same species?
My point being, it's not DNA that drives this. Of course, everything ultimately is (and that's also not to imply that plants have a conscious,) but I wouldn't be surprised if they are programmed to compete, while favoring (and by not hurting, helping) a similar genetic structure (survival of the fittest and all!)
The moment the message was sent, and your past self read it, that future would no longer be on the path through time that you're following. You'd need a future where you turn out poor (but fortunate enough to send a message back in time!) and warn yourself of HOW you turned out poor... Yeah, I saw the crappy remake too but all I remember was the image of the cracked moon...(freaking cool, but the rest of the movie sucked!)
OR, I can just make sure I'm constantly saving a little now, and be well off in 30 years when I retire...
Or...invest in a few gallons of oil, or a few big diamonds, or have your future self send you the names of all the famous artists of the time (and buy some of their stuff for CHEAP!)
Money rarely (and certainly not predictably) INCREASES in value over time...inflation alone generally out paces all other economical factors. Your best bet is in the value of rare goods...
It's all about momentum:
p = m * v
p = momentum, v = velocity, m = mass
Yeah, an ion drive is just spitting out...well...ions. As there's negligible gravity the further your distance from any large body, you don't have (noticeable) friction / angular acceleration to slow you down. Spitting out a single ion might not get you moving much faster, and it might not give you a lot more momentum, but it is still a measurable effect.
Now spit out trillions upon trillions of ions... It's moved from being a measurable effect to cheap (not monetarily, I'm referring to energy expenditure) and effective means of moving in space.
I do something similar, I use Gmail as my "spam filter." Since they allow forwarding, I use email address A to sign up for all my online crap. I then forward from address A to address B, and change both the "from" and "reply-to" boxes to reflect address A (again, you can do this all in gmail!) I check my email at A once in a while, but mostly it's to delete the hundreds of spam a day I get. If anything sneaks through the filter, I go to address A, find it, tell google it's spam and I won't get another one! I get maybe 1 or 2 spam a day at address B (that I can quickly go and prevent from happening again!)
What if all HD/BR-DVD players were issued by MS or Sony or Toshiba? That's not to say they wouldn't be crackable, but it seems a big part of the "hacker problem" (though I would definitely argue the definition of "problem" here!) is in the insecurities of existing software and hardware. If MS/Toshiba or Sony buttoned down their own technologies (ie: HD-DVD drive for the 360, Sony's Blu-ray Disc-authoring software...), wouldn't the "problem" be solved?
Well you know, I will admit I'm still a bit of a newbie with the Linux world. I could clearly see that my RAM was being KILLED by Amarok, and pretty much guessed from there. Closing the application never fully did it either. If it were using 600MB when I closed it, it would unload to about 400MB before the process was finally terminated, but when I reloaded the application, it would jump right back to 400MB (where originally, after restart it would use MAYBE 10MB.)
Maybe I was completely mistaken in my prognosis, though I do know that Amarok was the problem, not the OS (as XMMS worked fine too!) Anyone else with some insight?
True that. I had a computer with P4 1.7gHz, 768 megs of RAM and kubuntu 6.06. Amarok WAS one of the cleaner programs I'd used on that PC, though I had to regularly close it. If I left it open (like I do with Winamp now) it would use all my computer's resources within a week, causing me to restart more often than I'd wanted to!
I think the problem lay in the fact that I would just "pause" my music as I'm leaving (and not fully stop it)...it would sit in memory while I was gone...not sure why there was a leak but yeah, very resource intensive but a very good looking program!
Because we as humans are used to the telephone, we're even used to chat at this point! A lot of the "problem" with us, is that we're conservative enough to adapt the old adage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Personally, brand new features don't excite me as much when the features we have are already adequate. I guess that's why this is such a big revelation, it's actually realizing that what we have isn't static. The technology is adaptable, it's just going to take some real NEW innovation instead of attempting to simply patch "old innovation" until it's stable.
That's simply not true. Radio stations pay publishers, not the artists... Would you really want to pay both MTV AND Ashton Kushface [sic] for new Punkd episodes? NO! It's MTV's job to pay Ashman FOR us! Essentially, we're doing both anyway, but they aren't independent. Simply by airing the TV show, MTV is promoting Punkd, and DVD sales, advertising and whatnot will drive their revenue.
EXACTLY! I like their old stuff (Cliff Burton is a bass GOD!!!) I didn't mean to offend above, by any means, I'm just sick of the same old formula that all these "rock" bands are falling into. There is plenty of new music out there that doesn't necessarily conform to the norm (hence the Girl Talk reference), but won't be played on the radio because it might not necessarily make the radio station money! Now, with this push from the RIAA, it would be CHEAPER for the radio stations to play "non-represented" music (and not pay the extortion fee), as opposed to the original reprocessed crap!
For those of you that didn't understand the Ben Folds reference, I highly suggest you see him live in concert...it changed how I viewed music!
ok, ok, so maybe the beaten dead joke was a little much...but really I do hope that the result of this is that radio stations choose to just avoid RIAA represented music, and we get a better variety!
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*sigh* Go calm down, have yourself a cigarette...
Nah, it's merely that the NY Times is only read by drunk hobo's who just jacked a new car.
Because the software was stolen more than 10 years ago?
touche!
If someone is going to www.i-am-a-terrorist.com/forum/post.php. CHANCES ARE you know EXACTLY what he was looking at when he went to the site. Combine that with an "ah, I see he visited on Thursday at 7PM" and you've got a very good idea of what Mr. Terrorist posted. The point is that even though you can read the outside of a letter and know where it's going and where it came from, you still require a warrant to be able to examine it any further. Information posted to the internet does not have the same protection.
But then again, anyone posting on a public forum has to be aware of that fact. Anyone posting incriminating material on a public forum (ie: the internet) is an idiot...
every part of the mission is tailored specifically for the task at hand
Precisely. NASA's budget is $16.8 Billion (US) and dropping relatively to the strength of the dollar.
Though it seems like a lot of money, compare to ANY other governmental program (consider Welfare at 14% of the US GDP means that almost 2 trillion dollars are spent YEARLY on welfare alone! Now also keep in mind this includes corporate welfare...)
My point being, is that given the scientific, bureaucratic, safety, social, political and engineering requirements that NASA has to adhere to, they are given a VERY strict budget to do it in. Every mission they plan for, they MUST do it on the cheap, and planning for multiple missions? Nah, that's a waste of time AND money that they don't have, because there's still only a slim chance the primary mission will even happen, let alone succeed.
I miss the days when radio was orchestrated by the DJ. Instead of there being "playlists" and the DJ just there for random contests and advertisements, the DJ USED to be (well...sometimes was...) a knowledgeable source of the music he was playing, because not only would he PLAY what he LIKED, he generally OWNED it all anyway.
Now it's all automated and corporately driven, unless you find a good college station: (like www.wicb.org -- listen online and rated very well nationally)
8 years ago when I called up my local rock station and asked for Queens of the Stone Age, the DJ knew who I was talking about (at that point a year old band with a brand new album.) Now, try to call your local rock radio station and see if they have any Copeland, or Tea Party (now just Jeff Martin, but worth a look!!!) or V.A.S.T....bands that have been putting out multiple albums for YEARS but since they aren't on many major playlists, you'll NEVER hear them from ClearChannel or KROCK...
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So...since you answered the way you did I am going to ask you:
What exactly is this "Tre" then? I see it's an enzyme, but I guess I'm still a bit confused. Cre acted as a catalyst to procure a specific reaction for a specific DNA sequence? Is that an attribute of the chemical composition of the enzyme, or, well...I guess I really don't understand where that came from. Is it a specific enzyme, or is "Cre" the name attributed to ANY enzyme that acts in this way?
OK, so with that, what is Tre? The same type of enzyme with a different chemical composition? The reason I'm asking this is because, if I'm interpreting this correctly, this could have very far reaching ramifications! I can imagine this (enzyme? process?) being used to cure just about ANY virus infection, let alone the myriad of other GENETIC diseases that we humans are currently affected by...again, if I understand correctly. Tre might cure AIDS, where Bre cures Herpes, and Wre cures the common cold... OK so I know I'm probably oversimplifying way too much, but considering that viruses all work in (basically) the same way, it's just a matter of recognizing the different DNA sequences.
The only problem I really see with this: If Person A was born with a very abnormal genetic problem, and undergoes therapy and this treatment to effectively "cure" themselves, would it replace the genetics body-wide? I guess I'm thinking about way in the future, as it's going to have to be a huge step to get to that point, but my thought was that if the reproductive organs of Person A weren't changed genetically, essentially that genetic "problem" will continue for every generation to come.
OK, I said my piece. Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it. I tried to read the article and was just getting more confused!
...and, will they allow anyone to edit these articles? That's the spirit of a Wiki, right? It's all fine to hire a bunch of smarter monkeys to write for you, but when your "editor" is the rest of us (relatively by comparison) retarded monkeys, I don't see how paying for the initial content makes a difference.
...and the simple fact his application hasn't been approved yet means there's no regulation?
"Under Communism, man exploits men - under Capitalism, it's the other way around"
It's a seed plant, so it reproduces sexually. Unless the species itself has inbred to the point of no variation in their DNA (like what the leopard is approaching), one disease or parasite or [insert bane here] would have wiped them out years ago. Even, let's go far as to say their DNA was SO PERFECT that it had already taken into account any potential threat, past, present AND future...then every single plant would be the same...why would it fight any individual from the same species?
My point being, it's not DNA that drives this. Of course, everything ultimately is (and that's also not to imply that plants have a conscious,) but I wouldn't be surprised if they are programmed to compete, while favoring (and by not hurting, helping) a similar genetic structure (survival of the fittest and all!)
The moment the message was sent, and your past self read it, that future would no longer be on the path through time that you're following. You'd need a future where you turn out poor (but fortunate enough to send a message back in time!) and warn yourself of HOW you turned out poor... Yeah, I saw the crappy remake too but all I remember was the image of the cracked moon...(freaking cool, but the rest of the movie sucked!)
OR, I can just make sure I'm constantly saving a little now, and be well off in 30 years when I retire...
Or...invest in a few gallons of oil, or a few big diamonds, or have your future self send you the names of all the famous artists of the time (and buy some of their stuff for CHEAP!)
Money rarely (and certainly not predictably) INCREASES in value over time...inflation alone generally out paces all other economical factors. Your best bet is in the value of rare goods...
It's all about momentum:
p = m * v
p = momentum, v = velocity, m = mass
Yeah, an ion drive is just spitting out...well...ions. As there's negligible gravity the further your distance from any large body, you don't have (noticeable) friction / angular acceleration to slow you down. Spitting out a single ion might not get you moving much faster, and it might not give you a lot more momentum, but it is still a measurable effect.
Now spit out trillions upon trillions of ions... It's moved from being a measurable effect to cheap (not monetarily, I'm referring to energy expenditure) and effective means of moving in space.
I do something similar, I use Gmail as my "spam filter." Since they allow forwarding, I use email address A to sign up for all my online crap. I then forward from address A to address B, and change both the "from" and "reply-to" boxes to reflect address A (again, you can do this all in gmail!) I check my email at A once in a while, but mostly it's to delete the hundreds of spam a day I get. If anything sneaks through the filter, I go to address A, find it, tell google it's spam and I won't get another one! I get maybe 1 or 2 spam a day at address B (that I can quickly go and prevent from happening again!)
What if all HD/BR-DVD players were issued by MS or Sony or Toshiba? That's not to say they wouldn't be crackable, but it seems a big part of the "hacker problem" (though I would definitely argue the definition of "problem" here!) is in the insecurities of existing software and hardware. If MS/Toshiba or Sony buttoned down their own technologies (ie: HD-DVD drive for the 360, Sony's Blu-ray Disc-authoring software...), wouldn't the "problem" be solved?
ah I guess I'm not choosy...I prefer Peter PNG!
Well you know, I will admit I'm still a bit of a newbie with the Linux world. I could clearly see that my RAM was being KILLED by Amarok, and pretty much guessed from there. Closing the application never fully did it either. If it were using 600MB when I closed it, it would unload to about 400MB before the process was finally terminated, but when I reloaded the application, it would jump right back to 400MB (where originally, after restart it would use MAYBE 10MB.)
Maybe I was completely mistaken in my prognosis, though I do know that Amarok was the problem, not the OS (as XMMS worked fine too!) Anyone else with some insight?
True that. I had a computer with P4 1.7gHz, 768 megs of RAM and kubuntu 6.06. Amarok WAS one of the cleaner programs I'd used on that PC, though I had to regularly close it. If I left it open (like I do with Winamp now) it would use all my computer's resources within a week, causing me to restart more often than I'd wanted to!
I think the problem lay in the fact that I would just "pause" my music as I'm leaving (and not fully stop it)...it would sit in memory while I was gone...not sure why there was a leak but yeah, very resource intensive but a very good looking program!
Oh, and my Sansa m250 worked just fine with it!
Because we as humans are used to the telephone, we're even used to chat at this point! A lot of the "problem" with us, is that we're conservative enough to adapt the old adage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Personally, brand new features don't excite me as much when the features we have are already adequate. I guess that's why this is such a big revelation, it's actually realizing that what we have isn't static. The technology is adaptable, it's just going to take some real NEW innovation instead of attempting to simply patch "old innovation" until it's stable.
That's simply not true. Radio stations pay publishers, not the artists... Would you really want to pay both MTV AND Ashton Kushface [sic] for new Punkd episodes? NO! It's MTV's job to pay Ashman FOR us! Essentially, we're doing both anyway, but they aren't independent. Simply by airing the TV show, MTV is promoting Punkd, and DVD sales, advertising and whatnot will drive their revenue.
EXACTLY! I like their old stuff (Cliff Burton is a bass GOD!!!) I didn't mean to offend above, by any means, I'm just sick of the same old formula that all these "rock" bands are falling into. There is plenty of new music out there that doesn't necessarily conform to the norm (hence the Girl Talk reference), but won't be played on the radio because it might not necessarily make the radio station money! Now, with this push from the RIAA, it would be CHEAPER for the radio stations to play "non-represented" music (and not pay the extortion fee), as opposed to the original reprocessed crap!
For those of you that didn't understand the Ben Folds reference, I highly suggest you see him live in concert...it changed how I viewed music!
Exactly. Maybe now we'll start getting to hear actual talent and art on the radio now, instead of beaten dead, old, reprocessed formulas!
ok, ok, so maybe the beaten dead joke was a little much...but really I do hope that the result of this is that radio stations choose to just avoid RIAA represented music, and we get a better variety!